I am thrilled to see conversation has been creatively captured in this art and story telling project on Omaha’s bus system. While the personal aspirations, tribulations and quiet banalities of life are investigated, the mere act of conversational engagement...
Could conversation (as I define it here) have prevented the shamefully absurd mutterings of natterers like Michele Bachmann or nipped in the bud the unethical actions of bankers in JP Morgan’s massive gambles, HSBC’s money laundering or Barclays...
The Kent Bellows Foundation has generously acknowledged the capacity of conversation as an art form. Moreover, the Foundation recognized that among the numerous remarkable opportunities it affords its art students, conversation was an element that could expand their...
Wednesday and Thursday evenings featured back to back Squish events. The first was this year’s third Arthaus12 experience, featuring Casey Logan, which I shall write about in another post. The second Squish experience was a collaboration with Omaha Creative...
I was struck by David Brooks’ comments in his New York Times Op-Ed piece, The Service Patch, lamenting the utilitarian vocabulary that seems not just to describe our choices of profession and personal undertakings but to constrain those choices. Brooks says, “Many...
Last night 11 of us squished around a table at Corkscrew Wine & Cheese in Rockbrook Village for a Squishtalks experience, produced with Omaha Creative Institute. To explore what each of us individually took from the conversation, each participant jotted a thought...
